Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation [Map]

Michael Brein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 2008

Michael Brein's Guide to Paris by the Metro shows travelers how to go to Paris's top 50 visitor attractions by the Metro, RER (suburban rail), and tram. The guide shows which transit to use, which lines to take, which stops to board and exit at, and, using about 30 detailed mini-area-walking maps, shows exactly how to walk from these stops right to the visitor attractions. Additional nearby points of interest are also indicated on these mini-maps. An ultra-large (very easy to read) official map of Paris's transit system is also provided. The Paris guide is concise, compact, and comprehensive and fits in your pocket (leave the bulky books back in the hotel room!). Michael Brein's Paris guide is part of the world's first and only travel guide series specifically designed to show travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions by public transportation in a variety of the world's most visited cities.

Editorial Reviews

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Another most unusual and also very clever guidebook to come into the marketplace, is "Sightseeing by Public Transportation." In all my years in travel, I've seen some offbeat things, but when I got a copy I was hooked, fascinated and wondered why no one's done this before. -- On the Road with John Clayton, July 16, 1999

Know Before You Go with $5 Transit Guides. Detailed maps of public transit systems are often hard to come by until you reach a destination. The guides cost $5 each and include a list of a city's 50 most popular places, as well as walking maps. The big maps are the schematics used by the cities themselves. The series began with the Oahu bus system. The publisher, Michael Brein, has added London, Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Madrid, Munich, Prague and Sydney. Amsterdam, Washington, D.C. and Vienna will be added this spring. -- San Jose Mercury News, January 16, 2000

Off the Map. If you want to get to know a city like a local, it helps to travel like one, and free public transit maps don't tell you how to get to the fun stuff. For $5, try one of Michael Brein's double-duty city transit maps. -- New York Post, August 24, 1999

Sightseeing by Public Transportation Map Series. Assiduous and budget-minded trip- planners might want to include these maps as reference materials for their next trip -- San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 1998

Subway Series. The Metro, U-Bahn, Underground and other modes of public transit star in a new series of guides created by Michael Brein, a Ph.D. in social psychology with an interest in affordable travel. -- Consumer Reports Travel Letter, November 1999

Travel Advisory: Taking public transit? These maps will help. For those who want to know where a subway will take them, there is a new series of public transit maps packed with information. -- New York Times, January 16, 2000

From the Publisher

This all-new "underground" sightseeing map series has surfaced for the budget conscious and independent traveler who yearns to visit major tourist attractions in cities around the world by using public transportation as an alternative to cars, taxis or organized bus tours. The series includes similar guides for London, Honolulu, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Munich, Sydney and other cities. Michael Brein's Guides give you the one thing all the other travel guides do not, namely, how to actually go to points of interest! This powerful series provides you with compact, concise and comprehensive information in a small-footprint, map-fold format that fits conveniently in your pocket. Leave the big, bulky, heavy travel books in your room and don't leave your hotel without Michael Brein's Guides. And once you've used one of Michael's Guides, you'll want the others!

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Product Details

• Map: 2 pages
• Publisher: Michael Brein, Inc.; Map edition (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1886590036
• ISBN-13: 978-1886590038
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 4.3 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,488,665 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Brein, aka 'Dr Michael', "The Travel Psychologist", is an author, lecturer, traveler, and publisher of travel books and guides. He appears in many newspapers, magazines, blogs, and radio programs on the psychology of travel.

His travel guide series, which is available on Amazon, is the world's first and only travel guide series designed to show travelers how to sightsee the top 50 visitor attractions in the world's most popular cities easily and cheaply by public transportation.

Available soon on Amazon is "The Travel Psychologist Series". Based on Michael's interviews of 1,600 world travelers and adventurers over the last three decades, the series reveals the psychology of travel as woven through the more than 5,000 travel stories collected from these well seasoned travelers.

To learn more about Michael Brein's travel guides and travel tales series, please visit www.michaelbrein.com.

Michael resides on Bainbridge Island, WA. You may email him at [e-mail].

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars High price for low quality, March 29, 2002

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Scott (Bloomington, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation (Map)

There are more comprehensive guides available for less money (or free, even). It is printed on paper that is just a step above newsprint. Save your money for a more complete guide.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This guide is a must for anyone traveling in Paris., March 30, 1999

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This review is from: Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation (Map)

Paris By the Metro is a fantastic resource for anyone who is exploring this great city for the first time or the 20th time.

I and my husband don't think we could've toured the city like we did if not for Paris By the Metro. With it we found all of the monuments and museums that we had come to Paris to see without having to spend an arm and a leg on maps sold in the city or on private transportation.

With easy-to-understand maps of the underground Metro system and instructions on how to walk or ride to many points of interest, Paris By the Metro is the best (and most economical) way to tour the greatest city in the world.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and indispensable guide, November 25, 1999

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Loren Ek "Author/Presenter" (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation (Map)

We planned our days in Paris with this guide and it worked out beautifully! We saw everything we wanted to see. If we got off-course, a quick look at Michael Brein's map got us where we wanted to go. Our Paris map is now well dog-eared with use. Thanks, Michael!